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I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

-Sherman Alexie

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

- Willa Cather

We read to empathize and to feel the empathy of others, to affirm and to be affirmed. We read to grapple with the human condition. We read to live lives we have never lived and probably never will...not without the transportation and transformation that only literature can provide.

- Mrs. Mastrangelo